The Machine Translation group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler specializes in speech and text technologies for multilingual communication. We work on innovative neural architectures and multimodal resources for a range of topics and applications (e.g. subtitling, interpreting, gender inclusivity). We are part of the Digital Industry center.
If you are fascinated by languages, cutting edge technology and research challenges, check out our Join Us page!
Our pick of the week by @DennisFucci: "Encoding of lexical tone in self-supervised models of spoken language" by @linguisticshen, @Phonologician
@afraalishahi, @AriannaBisazza, and @gchrupala, NAACL 2024.
#Speech #SpokenLanguageModels #ToneEncoding #Interpretability #Phonology
⏳Hurry up! Only 4 days left to apply for a PhD position on “Resource-efficient Foundation Models for Automatic Translation” (A10). Don't miss this opportunity!
📅 Deadline: May 7, 4pm (CEST)
👉Info: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application
#PhD #NLProc
Last on our power panel: none other than @HelenaMoniz5 🤩 President of @EAMTee and the International Association of Machine Translation. Currently Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Center for Responsible AI (https://centerforresponsible.ai/) with @Unbabel You don't want to miss this!
Our pick of the week by @beomseok_lee_: "UniverSLU: Universal Spoken Language Understanding for Diverse Tasks with Natural Language Instructions" by @Sid_Arora_18, @emonosuke, @pengyf21, @RoshanSSharma2, @shinjiw_at_cmu, et al., 2024.
#SLU #languageunderstanding #speech